News – Events Manager for WordPresshttp://wp-events-plugin.com
Event Registration, Bookings, Calendars, LocationsSat, 26 Aug 2017 14:22:16 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.517180428Events Manager 5.6.6.1http://wp-events-plugin.com/blog/2016/09/04/events-manager-5-6-6-1/
Sun, 04 Sep 2016 16:00:03 +0000http://wp-events-plugin.com/?p=3003This is a minor update which fixes an issue which cropped up in the 5.6.6 update where search forms disappear when search form styling is turned off in the admin settings. The reason for this bug was due to changes in 5.6.6 where the search form was updated to become ADA

]]>This is a minor update which fixes an issue which cropped up in the 5.6.6 update where search forms disappear when search form styling is turned off in the admin settings.

The reason for this bug was due to changes in 5.6.6 where the search form was updated to become ADA compliant. If your search form has disappeared from your events and locations search pages please update and refresh your search pages (including flushing the caches if you have any) it should reappear again.

]]>3003Events Manager 5.6.6http://wp-events-plugin.com/blog/2016/09/02/events-manager-5-6-6/
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 14:54:05 +0000http://wp-events-plugin.com/?p=3001Events Manager 5.6.6 fixed various issues and made a few minor improvements. One fixed issue in particular that cropped up in WordPress 4.6 and prompted this update to come out early was for themes that enable thumbnails/featured images for a specific subset of custom post types and throw a PHP error/warning. Additionally,

]]>Events Manager 5.6.6 fixed various issues and made a few minor improvements. One fixed issue in particular that cropped up in WordPress 4.6 and prompted this update to come out early was for themes that enable thumbnails/featured images for a specific subset of custom post types and throw a PHP error/warning.

Additionally, we’ve made some improvements to the ical feed format, providing more information about the event.

Whilst on the topic of ical feeds…. we’ve got an awesome Import/Export add-on we’ve been working hard on which will enable you to sync with any valid ical feed. That includes sites running Events Manager, Google Calendar among others! It’ll be capable of much more, this is just a teaser of what’s to come ;) We’ll be announcing the beta release of this new feature in the coming weeks with more info about what it can do. This will start off as a closed beta available to all Pro customers.

Stay tuned!

5.6.6 Changes

improvements to ical formatting, including static/unique UIDs, more accurate locations with geo coordinates, categories and featured image

]]>3001Events Manager 5.6.5http://wp-events-plugin.com/blog/2016/07/06/events-manager-5-6-5/
http://wp-events-plugin.com/blog/2016/07/06/events-manager-5-6-5/#commentsWed, 06 Jul 2016 18:57:24 +0000http://wp-events-plugin.com/?p=2983We’ve just released 5.6.5 which is a minor release mainly aimed at the new changes in Google’s Maps API policy, requiring all new sites to start supplying an API key in order to produce maps. This was a sudden announcement by Google with no advanced warning, though it seems that

]]>We’ve just released 5.6.5 which is a minor release mainly aimed at the new changes in Google’s Maps API policy, requiring all new sites to start supplying an API key in order to produce maps.

This was a sudden announcement by Google with no advanced warning, though it seems that only sites starting to use Google Maps from June 22 onwards are mostly affected (for example, we haven’t added an API key to our demo site yet).

Google still offers a free API key if your site serves up to 25,000 maps a day, which should suffice for most. We suggest you take a look at their grandfathering plan for sites using Maps before their cut-off date, and we’d suggest getting an API key anyway to avoid any sudden surprises.

]]>http://wp-events-plugin.com/blog/2016/07/06/events-manager-5-6-5/feed/42983Events Manager 5.6.4 (minor release)http://wp-events-plugin.com/blog/2016/05/02/events-manager-5-6-4-minor-release/
http://wp-events-plugin.com/blog/2016/05/02/events-manager-5-6-4-minor-release/#commentsMon, 02 May 2016 17:27:48 +0000http://wp-events-plugin.com/?p=2956Events Manager 5.6.4 is a minor maintenance release that fixes a few compatibility issues with WP FullCalendar 1.x as well as some category related issues: fixed WP FullCalendar (versions using FC 2.x library) not showing events outside current month fixed long events not showing on last day in WP FullCalendar fixed

]]>http://wp-events-plugin.com/blog/2016/05/02/events-manager-5-6-4-minor-release/feed/22956Pro 2.4.4.2 – Important Update from 2.4.4http://wp-events-plugin.com/blog/2016/05/02/pro-2-4-4-2-important-update-from-2-4-4/
Mon, 02 May 2016 13:09:44 +0000http://wp-events-plugin.com/?p=2952We’ve discovered a bug in Events Manager Pro which was introduced in the 2.4.4 update which can accidentally delete bookings when ALL the following are met: You’re using the Multiple Bookings Mode Beta feature The booking was made using our PayPal gateway You’ve set PayPal bookings to auto-delete after x minutes

]]>We’ve discovered a bug in Events Manager Pro which was introduced in the 2.4.4 update which can accidentally delete bookings when ALL the following are met:

You’re using the Multiple Bookings Mode Beta feature

The booking was made using our PayPal gateway

You’ve set PayPal bookings to auto-delete after x minutes if they haven’t been paid

You’ll notice an approved transaction in the transactions table, yet if you click on the multiple booking record you won’t see any individual event bookings associated with it, as these have been deleted. This will only affect bookings made from the time you updated the plugin to 2.4.4.

Update: This also seems to affect Authorize.net bookings, however the bookings don’t get deleted, the individual event bookings remain in ‘Processing’ status and require manual approval, although the Multiple Booking itself shows as approved with a completed transaction. The solution here is to update and manually approve the individual event bookings. To avoid sending another email confirmation, change the status individually within the edit page of the booking and uncheck the ‘send email’ checkbox.

The update 2.4.4.2 fixes this issue, and therefore we strongly urge you to update to this version. We’ll be following up with a second email in a few minutes with the plugin attached, in order to minimize the risk of this email hitting your spam folder due to the attachment.

For those that updated to 2.4.4 and your license expired between then and now, we’ve emailed all applicable users, as well as those who’s licences expire in the coming days with a copy of the recent update. Please check your inbox, if you haven’t received an email and your license was active whilst 2.4.4 was out please get in touch and we’ll provide you with a copy.

We’d like to personally apologize for any inconvenience caused, in the event that this affected you. Aside from this fix, we’re also working on additional layers of safety measures including:

Searching PayPal transactions BEFORE deleting anything, in the event a payment was made but there are IPN issues.

Adding a ‘trash’ feature so that deleted bookings are recoverable for at least 30 days, to avoid any accidents in the future.

]]>29495.6.2 Releasedhttp://wp-events-plugin.com/blog/2015/12/18/5-6-2-released/
Fri, 18 Dec 2015 15:34:26 +0000http://wp-events-plugin.com/?p=2939This latest release fixes various bugs including a few issues which cropped up in the weeks following the the latest WordPress 4.4 release. We have also done a large maintenance review of translations whilst migrating to the new way of translating Events Manager on translate.wordpress.org. As of now, our new

]]>This latest release fixes various bugs including a few issues which cropped up in the weeks following the the latest WordPress 4.4 release.

We have also done a large maintenance review of translations whilst migrating to the new way of translating Events Manager on translate.wordpress.org. As of now, our new text domain for translating Events Manager strings will be events-manager (previously dbem). Additionally, alongside adding various new languages and updates, we have fixed various typos throughout the plugin and updated every single language file to reflect this.

We will be updating our translation instructions over the coming days and getting in touch with current/previous translators to help make the transition to this new way of adding Events Manager in your language. Stay tuned for more in a follow-up post!

Events Manager 5.6.2 Changes

changed translation gettext domain from dbem to events-manager inline with new translate.wordpress.org translation features

fixed EM_CSV_DELIMITER not being included in headers, added filter em_csv_delimiter to override EM_CSV_DELIMITER

added wpfc-more class to allow hiding of time on ‘more’ link for WP FullCalendar

fixed booking cut-off time not working if cut-off days is 0 or empty

fixed front-end event submission form permission issues for new recurring events when publish cap is enabled but not edit_others and delete_others

removed _event_date_created and _event_date_modified from the postmeta table as these are inaccurate, use the records from the wp_em_meta table or directly via EM_Event->event_date_created or EM_Event->event_date_modified

]]>29375.6 and Pro 2.4 Releasedhttp://wp-events-plugin.com/blog/2015/08/10/5-6-and-pro-2-4-released/
Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:44:40 +0000http://wp-events-plugin.com/?p=2916We’re happy to announce Events Manager 5.6 and Events Manager Pro 2.4 have been released today. This includes an important security update (Events Manager only), a large number of bug fixes, along with some very exciting improvements surrounding multi-lingual usage. It’s been quite a while since we’ve released an update.

]]>We’re happy to announce Events Manager 5.6 and Events Manager Pro 2.4 have been released today. This includes an important security update (Events Manager only), a large number of bug fixes, along with some very exciting improvements surrounding multi-lingual usage.

It’s been quite a while since we’ve released an update. The main reason behind this was due to a major rewrite of various aspects of the plugin in order to make it multi-lingual capable, particularly with our WPML compatibility plugin which has also undergone a complete rewrite and update. We’ll post more about this in the coming days.

We recommend everyone updates Events Manager to the latest release due to some recently reported security vulnerabilities by the security team at bit9 and immunityinc.com. We’d like to give our thanks to them for reporting this to us directly and working with us to patch these issues up.

Events Manager 5.6 Changeset

fixed potential XSS and a potential code injection vulnerabilities (props to the team at bit9.com and immunityinc.com)

]]>2916Recent PayPal Services Issueshttp://wp-events-plugin.com/blog/2015/07/02/recent-paypal-services-issues/
http://wp-events-plugin.com/blog/2015/07/02/recent-paypal-services-issues/#commentsThu, 02 Jul 2015 21:16:46 +0000http://wp-events-plugin.com/?p=2906Update – July 3 2015 : PayPal has made changes that seem to have fixed this. As a precaution, we’ve released a dev version 2.3.9.1 which implements the fix and can be downloaded automatically from your WordPress dashboard. Sometime around the start of July 2015 people have been experiencing issues

Sometime around the start of July 2015 people have been experiencing issues with PayPal transactions not showing up for Events Manager Pro bookings. This means that customers making bookings will not receive confirmation emails for successful payments, leading to all sorts of confusion.

Whilst we’re not entirely sure about how widespread this issue is, it has become apparent that it is affecting a lot of people, and that this isn’t limited just to Events Manager Pro but likely any WordPress plugin attempting to communicate with PayPal to securely verify a payment notification. These findings also indicate that PayPal is likely to blame.

We, along with various other WordPress plugin developers, have notified PayPal about this issue in the hopes that they fix this ASAP, however rather than wait for them we’ve made a workaround which solves the problem. We hope that PayPal will sort this out in a matter of hours, if they don’t by tomorrow we will likely release an update implementing this fix, given that (whilst unnecessary) it should have no long-term implications.

The Solution

Firstly, we recommend you set the ‘Delete Bookings Pending Payment’ option to 0 in Events > Payment Gateways > PayPal so that bookings don’t get erroneously deleted whilst awaiting payment.

Users with an active license can automatically implement this fix by updating the latest dev version within the admin dashboard, and ignore the following instructions.

Once you’ve implemented this fix, your bookings should start going through as normal.

For previous bookings made between the PayPal service problems arising and implementing the fix, please visit your PayPal account and go to History > IPN History. You’ll see some notifications are still retrying, those should go through. Select the ones that have failed and resend them, they should go through as well.

If you’ve already manually approved these bookings in the meantime, don’t worry, all that will happen is the record of a paid transaction record will appear for the booking.